Blue Star, Eagle Kingdom conference hall.
Cigar smoke curled through the sealed conference room, and the atmosphere was so oppressive it seemed frozen solid.
Around the conference table, Eagle Kingdom's top power brokers and conglomerate leaders wore livid expressions as they stared at the latest global player combat-power statistics on the massive screen.
"Three hundred and twenty-seven."
President Donnie slammed a report onto the table, his voice thick with frustration. "Across the entire Eagle Kingdom, after pooling the resources of every major corporation and spending fortunes buying low-level players' lives to power-level for us, we barely managed to produce three hundred and twenty-seven superhumans above Level 30!"
"And what about Dragon Kingdom across the ocean?"
Donnie looked around the room, his eyes full of unwillingness. "Nearly a hundred thousand! A full hundred thousand superhumans above Level 30!"
"How is that possible..."
Someone muttered under their breath, only to be glared into silence by the others.
The conference room fell deathly quiet.
After Titan: Genesis launched its global open beta, Eagle Kingdom had believed that its massive population and financial prowess would quickly erase its previous disadvantage. But to their despair, they discovered that on the path of superhuman evolution, capital's Money Power had completely failed.
With its head start, Dragon Kingdom had seized the most crucial resource points in the game. Worse still, Dragon Kingdom had achieved an almost perfect national mobilization in reality.
At this point, Dragon Kingdom had completely shifted its focus to developing Titan World and reverse-engineering Psionic Technology. Its domestic social apparatus operated efficiently, with its main efforts directed toward maintaining internal stability, curbing superhuman crime, and building infrastructure to promote evolution among the entire population.
As for international affairs on Blue Star, geopolitical disputes, trade barriers...
Dragon Kingdom's attitude had changed fundamentally.
They no longer